Janus: Jamaica 1959-1982

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17	The school feeding programme sponsored by the Jamaican Ministry of Education ensures a nutritious lunch for each child attending Primary School, thus making it easier for learning to take place
18	Careful packaging is essential to ensure that high quality bananas arrive on the export market
19	Jamaica's Blue Mountain coffee is renowned for its delicious flavour. Here, coffee berries are being sprayed against the coffee berry borer disease to ensure that the high quality is maintained
20	This familiar sight along the Jamaican countryside shows the effect of the lethal yellowing disease which devastated the coconut industry in the 1970s. The Jamaica Tall as a commercially viable variety of coconut was completely wiped out
21	After extensive research, the Malayan Dwarf was found to be highly resistant to the lethal yellowing disease, hence its importance to the Jamaican coconut industry as a replacement for the Jamaica Tall
22	Dr Thomas Lecky receiving the Order of Merit in 1978 from the Governor General of Jamaica in recognition of his outstanding work in the field of cattle breeding
23	The Jamaica Hope, product of many years of research by Dr Lecky, is a cross between the Jersey and the Zebu of India